Tuesday, April 21, 2026
FB X LI YT
Breaking
“Genocidal and diabolical” — Think Yoruba First blasts Farooq Kperogi over claims that Ilorin, Shao, Jebba are not Yoruba towns 🇳🇬📚 Ridwan Ajayi emerges new NANS JCC Lagos chairman after 5-5 tiebreaker vote — 10 tertiary institutions participated 🇳🇬📜 130 CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS PETITION KWARA GOVERNOR OVER DELAY OF BAALE’S UPGRADE LETTER — ACCUSE COMMISSIONER OF BLOCKING ELEVATION ON OBAS’ ORDERS! 🇳🇬🎀 RIHANNA WEARS YORUBA GELE — A Global Icon Embraces Our Heritage, Proving Gele Will Never Be Reduced to a Slur! 🇳🇬🔥 FAVORITISM UNMASKED: Seyi Tinubu Empowers Imo Youth With Freezers, Gives Yorubaland Rice and Foodstuffs That Will Finish in a Week — Is It Because His Wife Is Igbo? The first revelation landed like a thunderbolt. Ella, the face of the campaign against Omotoso, had privately apologized to him. That apology never made it online. According to the Commissioner, it was omitted because it did not serve what he described as a calculated clout-chasing agenda. The public was fed a version of events designed to provoke outrage, not inform discourse. 🇳🇬💔 2000 KADUNA RELIGIOUS CRISIS: When Sharia Introduction Sparked Bloodshed — Over 500 Feared Dead, Churches, Mosques, Businesses Razed! Afenifere Exposes Shocking Ransom Demands “They Want Virgins, Cocaine, and Beer to Release Victims!”
NEWS

BREAKING: Police Disperse #FreeNnamdiKanu Protesters in Abuja

October 20, 2025 • 2 min read

October 20, 2025
By Tobi Akinnubi

Security operatives on Monday dispersed protesters demanding the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, in Abuja.

The demonstrators, under the banner #FreeNnamdiKanuNow, had gathered in the Maitama area of the Federal Capital Territory before being confronted by a combined team of police officers, soldiers, and other security agencies.

Eyewitnesses said the protesters were chanting solidarity songs and carrying placards calling for Kanu’s release when security operatives fired tear gas canisters and gunshots into the air to disperse the crowd. The action forced many demonstrators and passersby to flee the area.

Among those present at the protest were activist Omoyele Sowore and Aloy Ejimakor, one of Kanu’s lawyers. The protesters accused the government of unlawfully detaining the IPOB leader despite several court rulings ordering his release.

Before the rally, security agencies had issued warnings against public demonstrations in parts of the city, citing an existing court order restricting protests around sensitive areas, including the Presidential Villa and the National Assembly.

As of the time of filing this report, there were no official statements from the Nigeria Police Force regarding possible arrests or casualties. However, heavy security presence remained around key locations in Abuja, including the Unity Fountain, Federal Secretariat, and Three Arms Zone.

The protest coincides with renewed calls from rights groups and activists for the federal government to obey court orders on Nnamdi Kanu’s release.